About freakisms.

[brinshannara]

So I was watching Sex and the City tonight (Bravo Canada airs three old episodes every Monday night. We're still getting through season one. The crappy thing is that they're not showing them IN ORDER. Like, WTF.), and Carrie was pondering the fact that if there's a guy in Manhattan, over 30, who's single, there's something wrong about him, he must be a freak in SOME fashion.

A friend and I were talking on the phone after the show, and were talking about the freakish part, in particular.

So I'm curious. What's your freakish thing? Most everyone has one, or more, of these freakish things that make other people go "Huh, wha?!"

I'm not talking about biting your nails, unless you bite your toenails like Dave Lister. Nor am I talking about actual psychological disorders. I'm talking about your "normal" freakish thing.

My first girlfriend, for instance, had many things that could be considered freakish, but I'll pick one as an example. She used to pick at the skin around her fingernails constantly. Pick, pick, pick. Bite, bite, bite. Pick. Bite. Pick, pick. Drove me violently insane, even when I was in love with her, and after I fell out of love with her, it grew intolerable.

I'm turning off IP logging, feel free to post anonymously. So comment here and tell me what YOUR freakish thing is!

Comments

[tapdancinghippo.livejournal.com]

I do the same thing with my fingers. I also bite/chew on my lip and scratch my head obsessively. I only do it when I'm around other people, so I think it's safe to assume that they're nervous habits. Either that, or my skin is tasty and I have dandruff.

[tapdancinghippo.livejournal.com]

I just re-read the paragraph that says you're not talking about psychological things. Oops?

[brinshannara]

<giggles> Yeah, like, that ex also had serious issues with public washrooms. She claimed to have "shy bladder". I don't believe she DID, but her issues were a strange quirk, which seemed to be based with her own psychological issues. A nervous habit would be the same sort of thing.

(She would do the picking all. the. time. Nervous or not, bored or not, it was a constant.)

[tapdancinghippo.livejournal.com]

Bleh. I don't like public bathrooms, either, but if I have to pee, I'm going to pee. Er, unless I can race home in time. I don't like going to the bathroom at other people's houses, either. I'm sure there's some psychological diagnosis for that, too. There seems to be one for everything.

I'm sure you, and everyone else, wanted to know about my excretory habits.

[brinshannara]

Personally, I think public bathrooms are gross. You'd think women wouldn't PEE ALL OVER THE SEAT, but you'd be wrong. Ulgh. Don't get me started on the library bathrooms, which were HORRIFIC.

Also, the bathrooms at Pentagon City Mall in Virginia. Really. Very. Putrid.

I don't especially enjoy using the facilities at a friend's place, but at least it's bound to be cleaner than a public bathroom...

[stormshadow19.livejournal.com]

Ummm... I don't really have just one freakish thing. Hell, I am a Wings, Tigers, Pistons and Jets fan, after all ;) But, I'll say one. I have to take a shower everytime before I leave the house. I dunno if that's ordinary freaky or what.

[brinshannara]

Hm. I guess it depends. Do you mean you have to shower for the day before you go out, or have you already showered for the day and then you make plans six hours later, and then you HAVE to shower again? :)

[trexphile.livejournal.com]

I like to rip open those little ketchup packets you get at fast food places and suck the ketchup out. Yum.

[brinshannara]

Ewwwwww! :D You freak! Good thing you're already taken. ;)

[tevriel.livejournal.com]

Not exactly a nervous habit, but I have slight hayfever year-round. I'm pretty sure that could be very annoying to someone else who was around me a lot. (It's also annoying to me because it kills my immune system.)

Also, I bite my nails. But I'm insidious; I don't do it all the time, I do it just enough that you'd feel really unreasonable if you called it an annoying habit of mine, because I hardly ever do it, but enough to be annoying as well. And I run my fingers through my hair when I'm nervous, or thinking, or feeling most emotions, really.

And my tastes in food are freakish, because I mix eating things no sane person would touch with being a picky eater about normal things.

[brinshannara]

I think we have to eliminate food freakisms entirely, because everyone has them to various extents. Me, I'm a picky eater, for instance. My brother puts ketchup on his green peas. My mother refuses to eat beets, and yet, she's the one who prepares them. My father enjoys ketchup with scrambled eggs and vinegar on his french fries.

So we'll exclude the food freakisms for now. The nervous habits are also just that -- nervous habits. However, I'm tempted to say the running-fingers-through-hair might be your freakish thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I'm going anonymous with this because it's gross AND freakish and I don't want anyone to not like me anymore. (Oops, that's delving a little into the psychological thing, isn't it?)

Anyway, I have a skin thing (like eczema) behind my left ear that causes my scalp to get really red and flaky; when I'm nervous, or if I'm bored, or if I can't sleep, I pick off the little flakes of skin. It embarrasses me to no end if anyone ever catches me doing it, but I can't seem to stop.

And that was definitely TMI, wasn't it? Sorry if I've spoiled your lunch.

[brinshannara]

I don't know who you are, so not necessarily TMI. ;)

That is definitely a freakish thing, though. Over the last year, I stopped biting my nails because I just trim them really short with nail scissors now, so there's no desire to bite them. I wish I had a similar method to help you to stop.

Seen a doctor about the skin thing?

[evywp.livejournal.com]

I can Pp standing up.

*bow*
Thank you

bwuahahahahahahahahaha!

[brinshannara]

guh.

Yep, you're a freak! (Now THIS was too much information!) ;)

[evywp.livejournal.com]

You asked!!! Besides, is not like I was going to show you how I do it or anything!! LOL
Unless you want me to....maybe that is your Freakism...you wanna know what other kids are doing, so you can be in the Freaks kewl circle here :D

Also, when you have to go and you are on a road trip, and you have to have to have to stop to go PP and the place looks and smell so bad that you rather pp your pants......it comes handy to know how to PP standing up ;)

[bethofalltrades.livejournal.com]

When I was really little, I trained myself not to feel pain. It's a form of self-hypnosis, I'm told.

[brinshannara]

So can you actually not feel pain now? 'cause hey, *cool*!

[bethofalltrades.livejournal.com]

Well, it doesn't work for things like headaches or cramps. It *does* work for things like scrapes, cuts, sprains, and other injuries. I focus on it, breathe, and it doesn't hurt anymore.

Of course, I've never (knock on wood) *really* broken anything, you know, that bones-sticking-through-skin kind of broken? I'm betting it wouldn't work there.